A straight-laced professor gets angry at his students for lusting after a sexy showgirl, but he feels a bit differently once he actually sees said showgirl. Unfortunately, her seeming reciprocation of his affections may only be an act. Early example of Marlene Dietrich’s innate magnetism.
A man escapes from prison and becomes the successful head of a record manufacturing company; his cellmate escapes later and ends up working for the factory. Events come to a head when the successful man is threatened with exposure from various other former prisonmates, but the main focus is a satiric critique of the industrial [...]
Moving from Germany’s idea of a socially-conscious film to a prime example of 1930s Warner Bros. example of a social problem film. Paul Muni plays an initially optimistic and energetic young man who struggles to find a job during the depression. Eventually, down on his luck, he ends up unwillingly involved in a robbery and [...]
